"I learned everything I know from television. So in the early '80s, when cable television became king, part of their deal was they had to give the public access to certain channels on the cable box. So public access was a way for everyday people to produce television. And a lot of it was rotten, which made it so, so...
Gef the talking mongoose has a special place in my heart. It was the first topic I ever did for this show and was part of our test episode that we've never released.
"Vampires are killers. Apex predators whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment, the ability to see a human life in its entirety, not with any mawkish sorrow, but with the thrilling satisfaction of being the end of that life and having a hand in the divine plan."
- Louis de Point du Lac, Interview with the Vampire Season 1...
Many moons ago now when I was working on my topic about the oldest written texts. I found a lot of interesting things but one that caught my eye was a tablet known as the "Instructions of Shuruppak" and is a series of directions passed from father to son on how to have a good life. There have been dozens...
It's April 1647. England is in chaos but yet it starts out as a year of peace, since Parliament was victorious in the First Civil War. But the war bred instability, so the people of England and Ireland deal with it the best they can. The Scots had captured King Charles I and so 1647 also begins with Charles signing...
When I was a child the 1982 film based on Peter S Beagle story "The Last Unicorn" was one of my favorite movies. Like everything else I have encountered in life that I liked a little more than usual, I became obsessed with unicorns and would get any book I could find at the library that featured a unicorn
"Bogs represent one of the last true wildernesses in Europe, and people have been burying things in them for thousands upon thousands of years. This has proved a boon for archaeologists, because the unique chemistry of bogs can preserve organic artifacts to an incredible degree – scarves, leather shoes, wooden cups, wolfskin capes, wagon wheels,...
You find yourself sitting on a dock, the air thick with humidity and insects, but the breeze coming in across the water is refreshing after a long dayYou're in Venezuela, you had flown in to the El Vigia airport that morning where your tour guide picked you up. You were in the car for a little over an hour, the...
In some ways, this is a short version of the history of wax. An incredibly malleable material that doesn't degrade the way other organic compounds do, wax can make molds, absorb paint, and be made into incredibly accurate, often eerily exact replicas of bones, tissue, and whole people (like in Madame Tussaud's famous wax celebrity museums).
Stubborn, focused, and an all-around badass, Leo Major is one of very few soldiers to receive the coveted DCM metal and receive a bar in addition. A native of Montreal, Canada he earned the nickname "The Rambo of Quebec" for his wild feats during WWII and the Korean War.